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While the impact of this tax is perhaps the biggest issue, one question that also comes to mind is why a tax increase like this is not more widely discussed?

(Reuters) – After Facebook’s removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network’s executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication. But the image – sho...

Varun Chandran, founder of Corporate 360. Photo Courtesy of Subject. Varun Chandran grew up in a village in rural India. Till his late teens, he didn't know what the Internet was. Now, he's running a startup, Corporate36...

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has consistently ranked in the top-grossing games on iOS and Android. The Electronics Arts mobile battle game launched 11 months ago, but fans keep coming back and spending money in the battle...

GUEST: I was honored to deliver a keynote address at this year's Velocity Conference in New York. My assignment was to talk about what “serverless” meant for teams. As I reflected on that question, and as I continue ...

Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga has been conferred with the Ghanaian national award of 'Companion Of The Star of Ghana', the highest national honors in Ghana.

FEATURE: What’s in a name? If you’re trying to a sell home video game console, a lot. The name is the most important marketing tool a product can have. It needs to tell consumers something about the device, hopefully...

GUEST: Episode two of this season's Black Mirror, 'Playtest', sparked the question by many including Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor at PC Gamer, to ask the question, "Is there a line where virtual reality becomes dangerou...

When collecting judgments, one of the most powerful tools for creditors is running a credit report on the debtor, since the credit report will show where the debtor has applied for credit or opened bank accounts, etc. Th...

But the company is currently on one the likes of which we haven't seen before. The Oculus Rift maker has over 100 positions listed on its careers page across a range of fields right now. Thirty-one of these listings are ...

Security is changing fast and disrupting a +$100 billion industry. Here are three startups to watch and three insights from the inaugural Wired Security event.

GUEST: It just may be the most confounding dilemma of our era: Despite having long embraced (or at least accepted) the digital transition in virtually every aspect of our lives, from banking systems to utilities to perso...

In sports, there's an important distinction between an effective player and one who just collects impressive statistics. Although they might look the same in the box score, the former actually helps his team win while th...

Global bubbles usually have two things in common: a popular theme that hypes investor expectations -- like an exotic market with a large potential or an industry that defy gravity -- and a carry trade...a cheap source of...

There's a raging perception that cloud computing is diminishing, or even eliminating, the roles of information technology departments in organizations. However, IT skills and expertise may be even more critical as cloud ...

VB LIVE: If you can't replay your customer's journey, you're in the dark when it comes to conversions. Incomplete data means attribution is essentially guesswork, and you could be pouring money into all the wrong channel...

FEATURE: Daniel Dilallo has worked on high-end console games such as Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. But now he has shifted into a hot new gig: making porn apps for virtual reality. In some ways, this career transition is ...

GUEST: Chinese electronics manufacturer Hangzhou Xiongmai is in deep trouble. Its products are being blamed for having enabled last Friday's historical DDoS attack, which shut down access to important websites across swa...

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(Reuters) – San Francisco entrepreneur George Hotz was so confident in his self-driving startup Comma.ai that he had T-shirts made that boldly proclaimed: “We are gonna be so rich.” But U.S. federal highway safety ...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 12 technology M&A transactions and 104 funding deals (totalling €434 million, about $476 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items f...